Robert Branton, DO
Internal Medicine · Salisbury, MDNPI 1851388144
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 128 payments — averaging $16.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$762
- Amgen$221
- Lilly USA, LLC$163
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$144
- Exact Sciences$112
- Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc$97
- plus $556 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,046100%
- Education$80%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 53 | $762 |
| Amgen | 13 | $221 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $163 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 8 | $144 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $112 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 6 | $97 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $61 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $50 |
| Merck | 3 | $42 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $37 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $32 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $30 |
| VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $27 |
| Abbott | 2 | $25 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $24 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| GSK | 1 | $19 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Novartis | 1 | $17 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$2,055 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 56 | $63,195 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 22 | $37,417 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 21 | $33,643 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 28 | $30,256 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 34 | $29,482 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 30 | $23,063 |
| EliquisApixaban | 20 | $21,834 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 21 | $21,249 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 18 | $10,985 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 16 | $10,168 |
| Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 12 | $9,722 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 24 | $6,213 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 12 | $4,245 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 132 | $2,981 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 12 | $2,378 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| MerckJanumet, Januvia, Janumet Xr | $42 | $60,45267 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $50 | $37,41722 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $32 | $33,64321 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $163 | $30,25628 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $27 | $21,83420 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $19 | $10,16816 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $762 | $2,24021 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.
Other internal medicine in Salisbury
- Shishir KhetanRockville$52.1M
- Steven GellerElkridge$15.1M
- Mary HowellHagerstown$6.2M
- Kristen MarroneBaltimore$5.6M
- Jonathan CohenRockville$5M
- Andrea ApoloBethesda$4.8M
- Peta-Gay Jackson BoothBaltimore$3.6M
- Rahul PatelRockville$2.8M
- Mark YarchoanBaltimore$2.4M
- Marianne MannHighland$2.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.